Anxiety The DSM-IV criteria for anxiety disorder includes “at least six months of excessive worry,” “tension, fatigue, trouble concentrating, sleeplessness,” and “clinically significant distress functioning in daily life.” Merriam Webster includes in the definition for anxiety, “doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat and . . . self-doubt about one’s capacity to copeContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 7”
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Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 6
Promiscuity, consumerism, obesity, narcissism, apathy, greed—these are just a few of the obvious displays of homo incurvatus in se in 21st-century America. These behaviors—or the consequences of them—are visible and often public. Even apathy is on display by the very lack of people showing up to meet a given need. But from a pastoral orContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 6”
Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 5
How The Modern American Turns In On Himself: A Brief Overview Were Augustine to walk through malls of America he would come face to face with concupiscentia gone amok. Such is our disordered desire for “lower things.” Shoes and purses and berry-scented balms; entertainment systems that overshadow our ordinary lives with escapist fantasies; toys purchasedContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 5”
Man Turned In on Himself, excerpt 4
Homo Incurvatus in Se in the 21st-Century American Individual When the Puritan John Winthrop set foot on American soil in 1630, he proclaimed, “we must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoys together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our community as members of the same body.”Continue reading “Man Turned In on Himself, excerpt 4”
Easter baskets, God, and Graham
Today I am dropping my son Graham off at the airport for a 12-day business trip— an amazing adventure and work opportunity rolled into one. I’m so happy for him. But I’m also keenly aware that this will be the first Easter in 23 years that we have not celebrated all together as a family.Continue reading “Easter baskets, God, and Graham”
Heather Choate Davis 